Search Results: Books from The Anthropologists Closet

Celadon Books, 2021. Hardcover. Used Like New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 Celadon Books in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Publishers overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It's as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley's team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1,000. For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and to decode what it really means to be human. In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2020. Hardcover. Used Like New. Used Like New hardcover in a New dust jacket. Publisher's overstock mark on the top of the text block. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.57 x 1.23 x 8.6 inches) 304 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast, struggled with depression; it plagued his family and claimed the life of his brother in 2007. As Moe came to terms with his own illness, he began to see similar patterns of behavior and coping mechanisms surfacing in conversations with others, including high-profile comedians who'd struggled with the disease. Moe saw that there was tremendous comfort and community in open dialogue about these shared experiences and that humor had a unique power. Thus was born the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression. Inspired by the immediate success of the podcast, Moe has written a remarkable… Read More

Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. ( 5.52 x 0.71 x 8.47 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a bibliography and an index. 256 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly… Read More

NorthSouth Books, 2015. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2015 NorthSouth books hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From Iranian-American artist Rashin Kheiriyeh comes an illustrated edition of the famous story from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights! The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, have been thrilling readers and listeners for generations. Sinbad, the merchant adventurer, encounters treasure, a sea-monster, the Old Man of the Sea, and more in this captivating and stunningly illustrated retelling.

Picador, 2017. Paperback. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.5 x 0.69 x 8.26 inches) 256 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.

Knopf, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2019 Knopf hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, index, maps, and photo plates. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures. The relationship between elephant and rider is an intimate one that lasts for many decades. When an elephant is young, he or she is paired with a rider, who is called a mahout. The two might work together their entire lives. Though not bred to work with humans, these elephants… Read More

Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2018. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo.(5.04 x 0.59 x 7.76 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography and an index. 240 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Nazi Germany was driven by a desire to dominate the world and create a new master race. Every aspect of life in the Third Reich was focused on the goal of Aryan supremacy, and science and technology were no exception. Under the Nazis, conventional science and a range of fringes sciences were legitimate areas for research and development. Unorthodox ideas and projects that were too outrageous for other governments received funding. On the one hand, the Nazis denounced reason and praised what they called 'thinking with the blood'. On the other, there was a strong modernist wing within the party led by Goering and Goebbels that called for constant new inventions. During the last six months of the war, it seemed obvious the Germans had been… Read More

Triumph Books, 2021. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes B&W photographs. 352 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A behind-the-scenes perspective on Raiders history, from Oakland to Vegas Having spent eight seasons at offensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders before joining the radio broadcasting team, Lincoln Kennedy knows what it means to live and breathe Silver and Black football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Raiders, Kennedy provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can, from his experience anchoring the O-line in Super Bowl XXXVII to the current roster in Vegas helmed by Derek Carr, from Jon Gruden to...Jon Gruden. Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall anecdotes only Kennedy can tell, this indispensable volume is your ticket to Raiders history. .

Mutual Publishing, 2005. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks and underlining. 64 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A follow up to The Hawaiian Word Book, this handy, compact guide is perfect for students or anyone else interested in an easy introduction to the Hawaiian Language. Packed with basic, useful words and terms for everyday conversation, it is written in English-Hawaiian translation and organized by category for quick referencing. Complete with common definitions and pronunciation tips, this guide will help beginners become familiar with speaking Hawaiian.

Casemate, 2017. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index, timeline, glossary, photos, and illustrations. 160 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duels in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at the whim of the crowd or the Emperor. Few lasted more than a dozen fights, yet they were a valuable asset to their owners. But how did they fight and how did their weapons and techniques develop? Who were they? This book gives an entertaining overview of the history of the gladiator, debunking some myths along the way. We learn about the different forms of combat, and the pairings which were designed to carefully balance the strengths and weaknesses of one against the other. The retiarii (with nets) were… Read More

Dover Publications, 2000. Paperback. New. New oversized softcover in printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (7.75 x 0.25 x 10.5 inches) 48 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This accurate coloring book gives youngsters and colorists of all ages a chance to discover and learn about the many fascinating plant and animal species that make their home where the sea meets the land. Included are 42 carefully researched and rendered drawings: a seaside grasshopper, beach plums, a ghost crab, sanderlings, herring gulls, a sift-shell clam, a hermit crab, an American oystercatcher, a horseshoe crab, a mantis shrimp, a two-gilled bloodworm, sea lettuce, the common Atlantic octopus, kelp, a northern sea star, a frilled anemone, a northern horse-mussel, and more. This inexpensive coloring book offer hours of educational coloring fun, making it ideal for home or school use.

Black Lawrence Press, 2022. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2022 Black Lawerence Press softcover In a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A finalist for the Fall 2019 Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition, the Cupboard Pamphlet's 2020 Annual Contest, and the 2021 Newfound Prose Prize. Inspired by Virgie Townsend's own experiences growing up in an independent fundamental Baptist church, the seven stories in BECAUSE WE WERE CHRISTIAN GIRLS examine religious and gender oppression through an unforgettable cast of Christian fundamentalist girls. In the titular story, Townsend writes, "All Christian girls know what happens when they disobey, even if it's by accident. We end up pregnant, kicked out of our churches, and used as examples in sermons about what happens to disobedient Christian girls. Eventually we go to hell, where we fall for eternity in a dark,… Read More

Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2021. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 12mo. (5.5 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches) 82pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Using characters doubled over with grief, fear, and desire, the love poems in Worn mirror a photo album of legends, rumors, and memories exchanged over drinks in the early evening. Tenderness meets pain meets joy here, offering up the voices of Black folks fostering connection with their children, their lovers, and themselves. Christian's third collection of poetry (after A Proper Lover and 12023 Woodmont Ave) takes the reader through love and longing, and manifests how we all cope and get dressed again after the harsh reality of our world lays us bare. From ghazals about erotic kinks to the disappointment of a father, these poems explore the clothes we reach for first when loss strips us naked.

Arcturus, 2020. Paperback. New softcover in matte printed wraps. 12mo. (5.08 x 0.35 x 7.72 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 112 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-sacrifice sweetens character. Through a series of letters sent home while serving as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army, Louisa May Alcott created a raw and honest story of battlefield medicine during the American Civil War. Featuring a series of compassionate portraits of the soldiers she encountered, Hospital Sketches both recounted the desperate struggles of hospital life during wartime and gave a personal narrative of women's growing role in medicine and the military. The letters brought Alcott immediate recognition and began an astonishingly successful literary career that culminated in the publication of Little Women.

Michael O'Mara, 2020. Paperback. New. A clean, crisp well preserved 2020 Michael O'Mara softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities--one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to 24 characters who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character--from a senator to a slave girl, a gladiator to an astrologer, watchmen to washerwomen--and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches) Includes an index and glossary. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision-what to do with such knowledge-Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the… Read More

Grand Central Publishing, 2011. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches) 448 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad." Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation's unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forrest Gump. Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he's an eleven-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he's inside the Bitburg… Read More

PublicAffairs Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2017 PublicAffairs hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future. We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth--often overnight. Mathematical corporations--the organizations that will master the future--will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2020. Hardcover. Used Like New. Used Like New hardcover in a New dust jacket. Publisher's overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.38 x 1.28 x 9.57 inches) 368 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Award-winning author Michael Walsh celebrates the masculine attributes of heroism that forged American civilization and Western culture by exploring historical battles in which soldiers chose death over dishonor in Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost. In our contemporary era, men are increasingly denied their heritage as warriors. A survival instinct that's part of the human condition, the drive to wage war is natural. Without war, the United States would not exist. The technology that has eased manual labor, extended lifespans, and become an integral part of our lives and culture has often evolved from wartime scientific advancements. War is necessary to defend the social and political… Read More